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DrCornelius · August 2022

joneve said:

axisus said:

Quite a few bournemouth fans on the radio being pretty disrespectful to a manager who like him or not got them promoted out of a tough division. Make me hope they get relegated!

Sounds about right from my experience.

I’m a palace fan but had a Bournemouth season ticket for 6 years through work up until last season. They are a proper family club and I felt that they love limited players there who give their all more than high priced Carlos Kickaball types . From talking to mates today who still go , they felt parker wanted to take more financial risks on new players than not only the board but most of the fans too. Don’t forget a fan is for life , a player or manager at a club like Bournemouth who does well is looking for the next bigger opportunity and is possibly less concerned about long term financial risk. The two blokes I spoke to today were happy to give the players that got them up a chance in the big league unlike parker : Maybe that’s a hangover from the Eddie Howe era who kept a lot of players from div 1 into the prem. (Howe is / was a fantastic manager tbf)

TTony · August 2022

Soton 2 - 1 Chelski

And how much have Chelsea spent this summer???

It's starting out as a weird season;

Arse
Mancs
Spurs
(ok, so far, so reasonble)

Brighton
Leeds
Fulham
Soton
(what ???)

TeleMaster · August 2022

TTony said:

Soton 2 - 1 Chelski

And how much have Chelsea spent this summer???

It's starting out as a weird season;

Arse
Mancs
Spurs
(ok, so far, so reasonble)

Brighton
Leeds
Fulham
Soton
(what ???)

Hopefully we'll bring you down a few places tomorrow

joneve · August 2022

DrCornelius said:

joneve said:

axisus said:

Quite a few bournemouth fans on the radio being pretty disrespectful to a manager who like him or not got them promoted out of a tough division. Make me hope they get relegated!

Sounds about right from my experience.

I’m a palace fan but had a Bournemouth season ticket for 6 years through work up until last season. They are a proper family club and I felt that they love limited players there who give their all more than high priced Carlos Kickaball types . From talking to mates today who still go , they felt parker wanted to take more financial risks on new players than not only the board but most of the fans too. Don’t forget a fan is for life , a player or manager at a club like Bournemouth who does well is looking for the next bigger opportunity and is possibly less concerned about long term financial risk. The two blokes I spoke to today were happy to give the players that got them up a chance in the big league unlike parker : Maybe that’s a hangover from the Eddie Howe era who kept a lot of players from div 1 into the prem. (Howe is / was a fantastic manager tbf)

That mindset is fine, if you’re happy with your club just continuing to yo-yo between leagues but the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world for a reason. You can’t just keep the same squad through loyalty, spend nothing on improving your squad and hope for the best. That’s not to say you don’t keep a core of players but to survive with any sort of longevity, investment in quality players (using the money provided from promotion, the whole reason it exists) has to happen. If it doesn’t, you get pumped 9-0 by Liverpool.

Philly_Q · August 2022

Well this season we'll be able to make a direct comparison between Bournemouth's approach of keeping most of the Championship squad, and Forest's approach of investing heavily in new players.

Barnezy · August 2022

Liverpool can’t get a midfielder to join the club……. if they have to play Milner for half the season, they’ll finish outside top 4 for sure.

axisus · August 2022

Philly_Q said:

Well this season we'll be able to make a direct comparison between Bournemouth's approach of keeping most of the Championship squad, and Forest's approach of investing heavily in new players.

I get what you are saying, but a comparison like that would never work. Different teams, different personalities, different attitudes, getting the right players in etc are all part of the mix. I’d say the philosophy is only about 50%

Philly_Q · August 2022

axisus said:

Philly_Q said:

Well this season we'll be able to make a direct comparison between Bournemouth's approach of keeping most of the Championship squad, and Forest's approach of investing heavily in new players.

I get what you are saying, but a comparison like that would never work. Different teams, different personalities, different attitudes, getting the right players in etc are all part of the mix. I’d say the philosophy is only about 50%

You're right, of course, it was a semi-flippant comment, I wasn't suggesting it as a rigorous scientific experiment!

But it will be interesting to see how both clubs get on.

thecolourbox · August 2022

Also from my memory of both teams in the championship last term, Bournemouth were by far the better side (although couldn't seem to hot a cow's arse with a banjo against us) than Forest, and a good number of Forests players were on loan so you could say they needed to invest more than Bournemouth did really

joneve · August 2022

thecolourbox said:

Also from my memory of both teams in the championship last term, Bournemouth were by far the better side (although couldn't seem to hot a cow's arse with a bank against us) than Forest, and a good number of Forests players were on loan so you could say they needed to invest more than Bournemouth did really

Exactly this. We lost 16 (sixteen) of our squad at the end of the season due to loanees going back to parent clubs or players being out of contract/moving to new teams. Forest had absolutely no choice but to heavily invest, unless they just planned on playing their U23s to make up their 25 man squad. Which, judging by the reaction from most, is what we should be expected to do, rather than heavily investing and bringing in 18 new signings to replace the 16 players we needed to replace

bertie · August 2022

this is turning into the Spanish Inquisition/Romans sketch

thecolourbox · August 2022

joneve said:

thecolourbox said:

Also from my memory of both teams in the championship last term, Bournemouth were by far the better side (although couldn't seem to hot a cow's arse with a bank against us) than Forest, and a good number of Forests players were on loan so you could say they needed to invest more than Bournemouth did really

Exactly this. We lost 16 (sixteen) of our squad at the end of the season due to loanees going back to parent clubs or players being out of contract/moving to new teams. Forest had absolutely no choice but to heavily invest, unless they just planned on playing their U23s to make up their 25 man squad. Which, judging by the reaction from most, is what we should be expected to do, rather than heavily investing and bringing in 18 new signings to replace the 16 players we needed to replace

Yes i didn't mean it as a dig at all, forest were a good side last season going up on merit, and certainly spanked us one at your place, but you were always going to need to reinforce and I guess they thought they may as well buy players to stay there (or who could hopefully be sold on if you don't), rather than end up coming straight back down and having to rebuild again whilst struggling to get rid of useless players on big contracts like we are

TeleMaster · August 2022

@TTony Hey mate hope you win today!

Only joking hope you get battered!

guitars4you · August 2022

some tasty matches for a neutral to watch tonight - Are they all on BT (via various 'red channel' options) - Not looked yet on my BT sports menu

CHRISB50 · August 2022

guitars4you said:

some tasty matches for a neutral to watch tonight - Are they all on BT (via various 'red channel' options) - Not looked yet on my BT sports menu

Yes, each match on a different BT Sports channel.

guitars4you · August 2022

CHRISB50 said:

guitars4you said:

some tasty matches for a neutral to watch tonight - Are they all on BT (via various 'red channel' options) - Not looked yet on my BT sports menu

Yes, each match on a different BT Sports channel.

Ta - with different kick off times I can start one game then see how it goes as to do I stay with it or move on - At this stage I'm open minded as to which I watch

TTony · August 2022

CHRISB50 said:

guitars4you said:

some tasty matches for a neutral to watch tonight - Are they all on BT (via various 'red channel' options) - Not looked yet on my BT sports menu

Yes, each match on a different BT Sports channel.

I get BT Sport as part of my EE mobile deal. Cost me all of £2/mth.

That was great last season when I could plug a USB-C cable into my phone and watch on a decent TV. The BT Sport App blocked the usual Android casting / sharing function, but not the cabled option.

After the latest app update, buggers have blocked the share-by-cable option too.

thecolourbox · August 2022

Can you just cast the whole screen rather than just from the app? That's how I do it in apps which block Chromecast

BigBearKris · August 2022

TTony said:

CHRISB50 said:

guitars4you said:

some tasty matches for a neutral to watch tonight - Are they all on BT (via various 'red channel' options) - Not looked yet on my BT sports menu

Yes, each match on a different BT Sports channel.

I get BT Sport as part of my EE mobile deal. Cost me all of £2/mth.

That was great last season when I could plug a USB-C cable into my phone and watch on a decent TV. The BT Sport App blocked the usual Android casting / sharing function, but not the cabled option.

After the latest app update, buggers have blocked the share-by-cable option too.

Exactly. I have it free with EE on couple of my contracts but you can only watch on your mobile device unless you pay extra for "big screen". Rubbish.
Good thing I can watch all football on other channels.

Go Cherries!!
(Plenty of hate here - hope we'll prove you wrong

)

TTony · August 2022

thecolourbox said:

Can you just cast the whole screen rather than just from the app? That's how I do it in apps which block Chromecast

I'll try that this eve ...

thecolourbox · August 2022

If you go in the Google Home app or whatever it's called, press the device want to use and there should be an option at the bottom called "Cast My Screen" which will show whatever's on your phone. Does mean you have to leave your phone on the whole time but in the absence of the cable method it might be of use

jellyroll · August 2022

Chelsea £70m for Fofana....best central defensive talent in the world apparently....who has helped Leicester to 7 clean sheets in his 37 games (and most of those with Schmeichel doing his stuff in goal)......

RaymondLin · August 2022

He's not even been capped by France. His potential is still very raw.

joneve · August 2022

Anyone with a VPN…a peacock premium account is the way forward. $50 for the year and over 165 live premier league games and all games available as replays. (Plus all the other stuff available on peacock tv)

TTony · August 2022

Could easily have lost that - and didn’t do enough to have won it.

(Spurs).

joneve · August 2022

Well….glad that’s out the way

TeleMaster · August 2022

joneve said:

Well….glad that’s out the way

Got him as my captain. And what about Lingard???? (Joke!!!!)

TeleMaster · August 2022

TTony said:

Could easily have lost that - and didn’t do enough to have won it.

(Spurs).

Great game! I agree. Probably my favourite fixture of the calender. Absolutely love hosting your lot, so much entertainment.

joneve · August 2022

TeleMaster said:

joneve said:

Well….glad that’s out the way

Got him as my captain. And what about Lingard???? (Joke!!!!)

Will be interesting to see who starts against Tinpot FC on sat. He gave Lodi a start tonight after one training session with the club, so could be anyone!

scrumhalf · September 2022

TTony said:

Could easily have lost that - and didn’t do enough to have won it.

(Spurs).

Bloody awful game. We seemed to lack ambition. Passing it across the back three, then into midfield, and back again to the bsck three.

It's all well and good trying to defend a 1-0 lead away from home but 2-0 would be better, and we nearly lost it right at the end.

We gave players who are not in good form, and yesterday's newbie Bissouma was poor. As starts to the season go it's not terrible, but it's painful to watch.

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